Ibragim Todashev

Ibragim Todashev (22 September 1985-22 May 2013) was a Chechen-American mixed martial artist and al-Qaeda sympathizer who was involved in the murder of three Jewish students in a Waltham, Massachusetts apartment on 11 September 2011 alongside future Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. On 22 May 2013, he was killed by police that raided his apartment as he wrote a statement on the Boston Marathon bombing.

Biography
Ibragim Todashev was born on 22 September 1985 in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, Soviet Union to a Sunni Muslim Chechen family. He was the eldest son of his father's twelve children (by two wives), and his family fled Chechnya for Saratov Oblast in Russia during the First Chechen War. In the 2000s, the family moved back to Grozny, and in 2008 he moved to the United States to study English. In 2008, he was granted asylum, and in 2013 he was granted permanent residence. However, he was too young to fight in the Chechen Wars, and he faced no danger at home; his asylum application was probably filled with lies. In 2010, he married an Armenian immigrant in Boston, and she financially supported him even after they separated in 2012. In 2011, he befriended Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a fellow Chechen immigrant, and the two of them were implicated in the murders of three Jewish students in Waltham, Massachusetts, where they nearly beheaded them with knives. The attack was believed to be inspired by Islamic extremism, although it is known that the killers and the victims knew each other, and the attack was not random.

Later, Todashev began a professional mixed martial arts career, but he quit his MMA career due to a serious knee injury. After that, he moved to Florida, having acquired a criminal record for road rage, threatening to kill a person after they insulted his mother. On 1 May 2013, he was arrested for getting into a fight in Orange County, Florida, before being released. Todashev was known as a hothead, being very aggressive in his actions. On 22 May 2013, the FBI interviewed him at his house, as they believed that he was associated with the Tsarnaev brothers (who had just killed 5 people in Boston - Tamerlan was killed by police) and may have been one of the men responsible for the Waltham murders. As he began to write a formal statement, he asked to take a break, and he walked into the other room. He proceeded to return and knock the interrogator down with a table before going after him with a pipe, knife, or broomstick, and the agent shot him at point-blank range in the head.